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Ok Lockdown 2.0 - why is the welfare safety net not strong enough for private renters? 1. Housing benefit for private renters, or Local Housing Allowance (LHA), was restored in
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Swimming in most lakes in Glacier is not a warm experience But as you tread water, your feet might feel colder than the rest of you. Why is that? This
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Four years ago, many of you said we were overreacting when we said trump was an authoritarian. 4 years later we have federal agents snatching ppl off streets, 160k dead
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Obviously, there was a LOT of stuff on the ballot on Nov 3. In Massachusetts, there was a chance to vote on #RightToRepair.Again.1/ Back in 2012, 75% of Bay Staters
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THREAD: Today's Retirement Income report has a long discussion about whether changes in the super guarantee are automatically passed through in offsetting change in wages. Here's the graph the report
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well hello there! I'd like to introduce to you a little non-binary wonder called.... THE GALACTIAN ALIGNMENT CHART (a thread, 1/11) made in 2016, this chart (along with the genders
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PREVIOUS BIRTH OF VASUDEV, DEVKI AND ROHINI.We all sometimes wonder why the Parmatma has to take birth as a human from time to time. Every birth of Parmatma has a
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(THREAD) Why a Trump Acquittal Helps Democrats If Senate Republicans acquit Donald J. Trump at his impeachment trial, it will be the best outcome—politically—for Democrats. Counterintuitive, I know, but hear me out. Here’s
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A brief history of the rise and fall of coal in the UK, and also a timeline of UK power generation, by @RobinMcKie.- First large-scale use of coal- First civil
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A thread on hedge funds, shorting stocks and trading vigilantes.1. First, let’s cover hedge funds. A hedge fund is simply a fund that collects money from wealthy investors and institutions
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1/ “I really just don’t have a choice. I’m an essential employee, and I report to work every single day, geared up and ready to go. So as a full-time
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Thread: Legacy benefits should be increased in line with #UniversalCredit.Starting with @stephenctimms...#20MoreForAll #KeepTheLifeline #UniversalDiscredit #IncreaseLegacyBenefits #NoCutsToBenefits Legacy benefits should be increased in lin
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On this day, ten years ago, the Libyan revolution started with protests in Benghazi. The uprising sparked the fall of the Gaddafi regime and was followed by a decade of
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COVID Update January 14: My last nightly thread for a while. What I want to say is it’s not time for despair. It’s time to fix things and move our
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Just published @VICENews:The U.S. decided to drop narco-corruption charges against Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda after AMLO threatened to kick the DEA out of Mexico.https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgzd9n/mexico-threatened-to-kick-out-the-dea-t
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Our upcoming #IMWUT @ubicomp paper maps areas of study in 523 personal informatics papers to point to opportunities for future research. Preprint available at https://depstein.net/assets/pubs/depstein_imwut20.pdf, and you can browse the
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